{"id":73811,"date":"2018-01-16T10:35:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T17:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=73811"},"modified":"2018-01-16T10:35:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T17:35:15","slug":"greatest-finding-that-took-place-in-the-1800s-on-the-mother-earth-which-is-more-vital-and-happy-to-buddhists-and-mankind-in-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/01\/16\/greatest-finding-that-took-place-in-the-1800s-on-the-mother-earth-which-is-more-vital-and-happy-to-buddhists-and-mankind-in-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Greatest finding that took place in the 1800\u2019s on the Mother earth which is more vital and happy to Buddhists and mankind in general!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
<\/td>\nMAHINDA<\/em><\/span> KARUNARATNE<\/a>\"Add<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

It was a day like today, 18th<\/sup> Jan. 1897 in India, 120 years ago <\/strong>a place called PIPRAWA a city 100 miles South of Lumbini.<\/p>\n

A British planter and armature Archeologist by the name William Peppe<\/strong> took the extra length to excavate ruins that was believed to have been the cremation site of Buddha besides a Stupa that was under sand and found deep underground the casket containing Buddha\u2019s relics in well preserved and carved containers. The relics were carefully deposited by Emperor Asoka for the future and for an on behalf of Buddhists.<\/p>\n

If not for William Peppe, we would have never been known about Buddha\u2019s relics and the associated history that proved Buddha\u2019s existence. On the other hand it would have been a co-incidence and a miracle itself.<\/p>\n

Our credit should go to British despite their colonial rule that had various other impacts on us, but for finding and preserving the buried history both in India and Ceylon.<\/p>\n

The Buddhism was destroyed after the demise of Buddha first by Hindus who started to vandalize, ruin and destroy all monuments in a frenzy lead by jealous Hindu priests that was then as continued and concluded by Muslims who even burnt and destroyed to the ground all Buddhist structures and monuments including rock edifices and written cannons that were proofs and legends of Buddhist, \u00a0would have been a by gone history with no trace if not the British enthusiasts and archeologists who unearthed and found fact of the history and helped establish the Buddhist history and monuments what we witness and deserve now to venerate with respect and pride. Never to forget the Muslims are the biggest and arch enemy of Buddhism during which rule of the Mogul empire about 800 years they did massive damage to Buddhism and Buddhist history in India as well as was erased in Afghanistan, Malaya, Indonesia etc.<\/p>\n

You are afforded to watch the full episode from how it was found in the attached Video courtesy to YouTube and National Geographic. Our heartfelt thanks to National Geographic\u2019s for narrating the episode as it were happened 120 years ago giving the spectator on hand experience.<\/strong><\/p>\n